In October, the record company the Beatles created, Apple, released a compilation album, “Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records.” Some of the most familiar artists on the CD, which is also part of a new 17-CD Apple boxed set, are James Taylor, Billy Preston and Badfinger.

The Van Eaton brothers, who grew up in Trenton, are represented by “Sweet Music,” featuring production by George Harrison and drumming by Ringo Starr. It’s a dreamy, utopian ballad. “If I could live my life again, I’d live it as a song, bringing peace to everyone,” goes a typical verse.

Lon Van Eaton will perform his music and tell stories Sunday at the Record Collector in Bordentown. It will be his first gig in more than a decade and his first solo show ever.

“I’m terrified about coming back there and doing the show by myself,” says Van Eaton in a phone interview from his home in the Denver area. “But I’m really excited.”

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Derrek, who also is living in Colorado, will not make the trip, but Van Eaton says some of his old musical associates from his days in New Jersey and New York may stop by.

There are plenty of them. The brothers played together in a local Jersey rock band, the Trees, and then a group, Jacobs Creek, that released an album on the CBS label in 1969.

After Jacobs Creek broke up, a demo of new music by the brothers drew the attention of Apple. A month later, the brothers traveled to George Harrison’s mansion in Henley-on-Thames, England. When they arrived, Harrison was sitting on the lawn, playing “Sweet Music” on his guitar.

Harrison, Starr and other musicians in their musical orbit worked on the brothers’ 1972 album “Brother,” which was recorded primarily at Apple Studios in London. “It was much different than the CBS album where Simon and Garfunkel had the studio at will, so sometimes even if we were recording, they could decide they needed to come in and kick us out,” says Lon Van Eaton. “We literally had the Apple studios to ourselves.”

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Where and when: The Record Collector, 358 Farnsworth Ave., Bordentown, Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

Sales were minimal for “Brother” and the “Sweet Music” single, though, and Apple lost interest. But the association with Harrison and Starr remained. The brothers played on various solo albums by the ex-Beatles in the ’70s; most notably, they’re credited with percussion on Starr’s 1973 hit, “Photograph.” When Starr taped a TV special in 1978, Lon played guitar in the house band.

The brothers released another album — on A&M in 1975 — and did session work for other artists. “Then the session work kind of dried up, when disco came in, in the later ’70s,” says Lon.

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In 1985, Lon created Imagine a Better World, a production company specializing in charitable recordings, videos and events. He is now developing a form of experimental theater called LIVIES (Live Interactive Visual Immersion Entertainment Shows).

The cover of the album "Brother," by Lon and Derrek Van Eaton.

He admits that not having more success with Apple hurt, at the time. But that was many years ago. And certainly, being immortalized by the Apple anthology puts a nice cap on it all.

“When I heard about this, it was like, ‘Oh, wow, thank you God.’ No question. If I sit back and think about these things that happened to me, I really feel like I’m the luckiest guy.”